According to well known economist, Thomas Piketty, inequality may well be one of the most significant issues humanity is facing this century. Piketty in his new book, ‘Capital and Ideology’ argues that the levels of inequality we see in the period from the 1980’s till now parallels the highest levels of inequality the world has ever experienced which was in the period from 1880 right up to the onset of World War I.
Read moreGujarat has over 91.51 lakh total workers however the active workers account for 28.9 lakh. In a recent study conducted by Bigi Thomas and Ruby Bhatia on the impact of the NREGA scheme on the quality of life
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An ordinary day of a daily wage worker in Bagepalli, a town in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka, begins in the hustle and bustle of the town, as they wait for employers to call them for work.
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“I’ve been traveling to Bangalore on work for the last 35 years and this is the only trade I know,
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The panel on the back reads, “Caution, treated with poison, do not use it for food, feed and oil purposes.”
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Gillan, farmer, Kookalthorai, Nilgiris. “I have 2 acres of land and I’ve been farming on this land for over 20
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“There are many blacksmiths in Madhya Pradesh and everyone travels to different parts of the country. We got here about
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The farmers of Kookalthorai, as you’ve seen, have been using chemically germinated seeds for a faster harvest of vegetables and
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“It takes 85 days for us to harvest carrot. From 40 days to the next 45 days we apply pesticides
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Somewhere between Solapur and Ahmednagar, another dam is being added to the already long list of over 1820 dams in
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